SF News Day Around the Bay: See a Superbloom of California Poppies In the East Bay An arrest has been made in connection with a deadly crash near Concord last weekend; longtime Stanford women's basketball coach Tara VanDerveer is retiring; and you can head to some parks in the East Bay to see superblooms of California poppies.
SF Politics Mayoral Candidate Aaron Peskin Releases First Campaign Video As we knew from his first announcements last week about his campaign for mayor, Supervisor Aaron Peskin is leaning into the concept of "recovery" — both as it pertains to the city of San Francisco's return to prosperity and his own struggles with alcohol.
SF News COVID Hospitalizations Hit Historic Low In California Given how life has been going the past few years, it would be unwise to declare anything with certainty like, "The pandemic is finally, truly over." But the hospitalization stats in California show that COVID isn't what it used to be.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Minnie Bell's Soul Movement Opens Next Week In the Fillmore Get ready for rosemary fried chicken and the gooiest mac and cheese when acclaimed East Bay chef Fernay McPherson debuts the first San Francisco location of Minnie Bell's Soul Movement next week.
SF News Here's Why a Two-Story Houseboat Was Being Towed Across the Bay This Week A two-story house — actually a houseboat — was seen floating across San Francisco Bay during Monday's solar eclipse, and it captured the imagination of many who wondered where it had come from and where it was headed.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Downtown SF Crunch Fitness Closes After 30 Years A three-story Crunch Fitness on New Montgomery Street in SF has closed after 30 years; Oakland native Zendaya talks to Britsh Vogue about her early start in Hollywood; and video shows a whale off Pacifica with fishing gear wrapped around its tail.
SF News Oakland Man Charged With Hate Crime For Threatening and Screaming Epithets at Gay Couple A 60-year-old Oakland man is now facing hate-crime charges for criminal threats and vulgar statements he made to a gay couple who are his neighbors, and there is video showing him threatening to kill them if they didn't move within two weeks.
Arts & Entertainment Weekend Concert In Golden Gate Park After Outside Lands Will Feature Alt-Metal Bands System of a Down and Deftones There will just be one extra day of music this year on the weekend after Outside Lands in Golden Gate Park, and the metal-heavy lineup was just announced.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Is at War With the Brazilian Judiciary Now Brazilian politics are, like America's, in a volatile and divisive place. And Xitter is reportedly being weaponized in ways that violate Brazilian law — which does not have complete protections for free speech. So Elon Musk is basically threatening to shut down all operations in the country.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink IKEA-Adjacent Saluhall Opens Thursday: Will SF Clamor For Vegan Tacos and Soft-Serve? The IKEA-affiliated Ingka Centres collaborated with a British hospitality firm to create a new paradigm for the mall food court. Will cocktails, Scandinavian pastry, and abundant plant-based options bring in crowds?
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: 15 Cats Abandoned Outside East Bay Hospital A pedestrian was killed crossing the 101 freeway near SFO; 15 cats and kittens were dumped outside Kaiser's San Leandro hospital; and a downtown SF post office might get named after Dianne Feinstein.
SF News Day Around the Bay: First Republic Branches All Becoming JP Morgan, or Closing The Parkmerced standoff with a barricaded man was resolved peacefully; SF-based First Republic Bank will cease to exist as of Memorial Day weekend; and the Kimpton Alton Fisherman's Wharf hotel has been surrendered to its lender.
SF News SF City Attorney Threatens Lawsuit Over Plan to Add 'San Francisco' to Oakland Airport Name The situation has heated up a week after Port of Oakland officials suggested they wanted to rebrand Oakland Airport by adding "San Francisco Bay" to its name. Now San Francisco is threatening legal action.
SF News [Update] SFPD Takes Barricaded Individual at Parkmerced Into Custody After Standoff Hostage/crisis negotiators were on the scene at Parkmerced in San Francisco Monday morning, after a man barricaded himself inside an apartment after allegedly making threats.
SF News Don't Look at the Sun: Solar Eclipse Will Be Very Partial In Bay Area It's a big day for one swath of the country, where for two or three minutes people with eclipse-watching glasses will be able to watch a total eclipse for the last time in 20 years — at least in the US.
SF News Eclipse Day Headlines: A Warm Weather Week Ahead Santa Rosa could be getting a huge new affordable housing project thanks to the "builder's remedy"; there was another small earthquake this morning centered up in the North Bay; and we have a warm weather week ahead, with things shifting again on Friday.
SF News 3AM Sideshow Takes Over Bay Bridge A sideshow that may have been the culmination of several others on the Peninsula Saturday night broke out around 3:15 am Sunday on the eastbound deck of the Bay Bridge, east of Treasure Island.
SF News Sunday Links: Crows Are Taking Over SF An early morning crash in Concord killed one person and injured several others; the winning Powerball ticket was sold in Oregon; and the crow population in San Francisco seems to have exploded.
SF News Suspect Arrested In Mission District Homicide A suspect was arrested Friday night in connection with the fatal afternoon shooting outside of El Capitan Hotel at Mission and 20th streets.
SF News 3.4M Earthquake Centered In East Bay Felt In SF Saturday Morning There was just an earthquake in the Bay Area Saturday morning, a small 3.4M tremor that was centered on the Hayward Fault just south of the UC Berkeley campus.
SF News Saturday Links: Fire Breaks Out On Treasure Island There was a fire in an abandoned building on Treasure Island Friday; the victim in Friday's Mission Street shooting was a Venezuelan barber; and Tesla is allegedly rolling out its own line of robotaxis in August.
Arts & Entertainment 'Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord' Brings Back Uncomfortable Pandemic Memories With Humor We are at the point where art is being made about the recent trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic, and performance artist Kristina Wong has a one-woman piece about her unique experience that just had its San Francisco premiere at ACT's Strand Theater on Thursday.
SF News Man Fatally Shot Outside El Capitan Hotel on Mission Street In SF One man was fatally shot Friday afternoon outside the El Capitan Hotel on Mission Street near 20th Street.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: New Restaurant Openings Start to Tick Up A new speakeasy bar has opened on Polk Street, Go Duck Yourself is coming soon to Bernal Heights, and Little Star Divisadero is staying open until September now.
SF News United Airlines Jet Clips Wing of Another United Jet at SFO In yet another incident involving a United Airlines plane at SFO, a jet pulling into the gate Thursday night clipped the wing of another plane, causing the two planes to be temporarily stuck together.
